SEPTA Work Impacting Jenkintown-Wyncote Station On Weekends

ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA — A SEPTA project is impacting parts of the West Trenton regional rail line throughout the rest of the month.

Township officials said that as part of the Bethayres Interlocking Project, SEPTA's West Trenton Line has converted to a single-tracking operation between Jenkintown-Wyncote and the Neshaminy Falls stations.

That conversion is on tracks in and around Bethayres Regional Rail Station during the four weekends in September.

On Saturdays and Sundays, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., all trains will board and discharge passengers on the outbound platform. There will also be a temporary speed reduction in which will impact travel times.

This will affect the following stations: Noble, Rydal, Meadowbrook, Bethayres, Philmont, Forest Hills, Somerton, Trevose, and Neshaminy Falls. Signage will be posted.

The work — which involves dumping large amounts of ballast/stone along the tracks — will be performed over 12-hour daytime shifts on the weekends of Sept. 20-21, and Sept. 27-28.

Much of the work will be south of Red Lion Road.

Loud noises are likely when the stone is being dumped out of the chute of the hopper car as well as from the ballast tamper that raises the tracks. Noise will be like underground utility work in a street.

SEPTA said that single tracking and opposite side boarding will continue for three weekends in October for the drilling of six additional caisson foundations along the project limits.

The caisson work will require clearing vegetation within SEPTA Right-of-Way on the Dale Road side of the railroad (only enough needed for access).

The work will be performed over 12-hour daytime shifts (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.) on Oct. 4-5, Oct. 11-12, and Oct. 18-19. Two of the three weekends, crews will be working north of Red Lion Road.